How / where to print... - We Make Zines2016-12-09T17:51:39Zhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/forum/topics/how-where-to-print?commentId=2288844%3AComment%3A335251&feed=yes&xn_auth=noFedex Store, UPS Store, Certa…tag:wemakezines.ning.com,2016-05-29:2288844:Comment:4516722016-05-29T20:04:41.688ZAbdul Batin Beyhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/AbdulBatinBey
<p>Fedex Store, UPS Store, Certain CVS but the rates keep going up grr</p>
<p>Fedex Store, UPS Store, Certain CVS but the rates keep going up grr</p> When I put together my first…tag:wemakezines.ning.com,2014-10-24:2288844:Comment:4119282014-10-24T19:28:05.573ZOlenhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/Olen
When I put together my first zine several months ago, I envisioned running black and white copies at my local Fedex/Kinko's to keep costs low. I am a photographer, so my zine was pretty heavy on images and the print quality was terrible to say the least.<br />
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I sort of felt like this was cheating, but I ended up using Magcloud for printing and the results were great. My zine is 8.5 x 11 inches with 20 pages (including the cover) and the cost was 20 cents per page. This was double the cost of…
When I put together my first zine several months ago, I envisioned running black and white copies at my local Fedex/Kinko's to keep costs low. I am a photographer, so my zine was pretty heavy on images and the print quality was terrible to say the least.<br />
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I sort of felt like this was cheating, but I ended up using Magcloud for printing and the results were great. My zine is 8.5 x 11 inches with 20 pages (including the cover) and the cost was 20 cents per page. This was double the cost of printing at the copy shop, but Magcloud will do full color for the same price. A big advantage of Magcloud is they print on demand, so I don't have boxes of zines cluttering up my one bedroom apartment.<br />
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I used a local print shop to do a limited edition on nicer paper and those came out looking really fantastic, albeit more expensive at 34 cents per page. Hey there.
I used to go make…tag:wemakezines.ning.com,2014-10-20:2288844:Comment:4114132014-10-20T04:04:58.349ZIzalixe Straighthearthttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/Izalixe
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<p>I used to go make my photocopies at my aunt's auto parts store's office for free and then at my cousin's construction company on his machines (also for free). I was young then though and now that I'm older I think people wouldnt look so well onto me smooching off other people's hard-earned money at their place of work.........</p>
<p>I was lucky enough that when my cousin who owns a construction company had to buy a new photocopy machine, he sold me his old one for 300$. It…</p>
<p>Hey there.</p>
<p>I used to go make my photocopies at my aunt's auto parts store's office for free and then at my cousin's construction company on his machines (also for free). I was young then though and now that I'm older I think people wouldnt look so well onto me smooching off other people's hard-earned money at their place of work.........</p>
<p>I was lucky enough that when my cousin who owns a construction company had to buy a new photocopy machine, he sold me his old one for 300$. It was a huge BEAST (3 grown men had trouble carrying it) but it worked great for many years... the toner cost about 150$ but would last for thousands of copies. It was a lot cheaper than going to the copy place.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately that biggo machine (her name was Pitbull) eventually died. I had a friend who was in University in 2004 and we were into urban exploration and one night we went into the university at night and we managed to print a whole issue of my zine, about 50 copies. We had brought a suitcase to carry the paper in and a bottle of rhum, it took several hours. We were Lucky that we werent caught and the code on the machine was, incredibly, *1111*, but I couldnt do that all the time.</p>
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<p>I eventually bought myself another home copier, a smaller one. It is currently broken (it indicates that a paper jam is stuck but there is nothing, and it wont work........ I,m going to have it repaired soon).</p>
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<p>So in the meantime I'm back at the copy shop. When copies were 5¢ each it was still affordable, for example a 40 page half-size zine (one copy=2 pages, so 20 copies per zine x 5¢ = 1$ per copy) was okay but now it is 10¢ a copy, 9¢ if you make 500 or more........ still expensive.</p>
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<p>Another very important thing you have to consider into the COST of a zine is MAILING IT. the cost of stamps has gone up incredibly in Canada lately (the cost of mailing a simple letter went from 63¢ to 85¢ in ONE YEAR!), a letter International is 2.50$ for 30g or less............ and it is not hard to reach 30 grams... an envelope alone is 6 to 8 grams, so you have to add THAT to the weight of your zine. I use a home balance and weigh my Template in advance and I,ve actually had to REDUCE the number of pages of my zines so I could actually still afford to make and mail them at a reasonable price, because you cant sell a black &amp; white 28-page perzine 5$ or more....... (in my opinion) 4$ is about the higher I'll feel comfortable asking......... less in person and less if the zine has less pages......</p>
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<p>I just reprinted a mini and I spent over 100$ for 60 copies, 1/4 size, 44 pages. I did make some mistakes and had to redo a couple pages though because I misplaced a few pages.... frustrating !!!</p>
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<p>If you can scam copies at school or work, do it !!!!!! I've never worked at a place I could scam copies.</p>
<p>Eventually I think it's cheaper to do it at home, it dépends on the cost of the ink/toner of course, you have to take that into consideration when buying a printer. DO NOT use an ink jet printer. These will run out of ink before you have one zine done. Use toner printers.......</p>
<p>There is also the fact that printing anything from 50 to 100 print-run or more will take you several hours standing up in crowded, overheated public spaces in front of heat-producing machines, possibly with your coat on, etc.... and that is also stressful and unpleasant, while doing it at home is much more relaxed and cozy........ when I print a zine, it can take me 3-4 hours in the copy shop, even with fast-working machines and myself working fast too !!!!!!!!</p>
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<p>The Library is the most expensive place, they charge 15¢ a copy here and their machines suck. But that would vary from place to place.</p>
<p>You could try places like welfare offices if you have access to it, job-hunting clubs etc, but you have to pretend to be copying resumes............. so if they catch you printing something else it might now go too good........ I've never tried it.</p>
<p>I once tried to apply at an "artists center" where they supposedly encouraged local independent artists and helped you and let you make copies for free... never got a reply.. I guess my stuff wasnt artsy enough for them....... when I am one of the only french-language zinesters in my city !!!!!!! (where the first language is french and much money and time and effort is spent on promoting french in culture &amp; the arts!!)</p>
<p>Let us know how it goes !!!!!!!</p>
<p>Iza</p> Aww, one of the 'cons' agains…tag:wemakezines.ning.com,2014-10-04:2288844:Comment:4106492014-10-04T00:10:55.199ZElainehttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/ElaineMoertl
<p>Aww, one of the 'cons' against the Pageplus Starter Edition is that you're limited to 5 pages only. </p>
<p>Aww, one of the 'cons' against the Pageplus Starter Edition is that you're limited to 5 pages only. </p> I had my first printing exper…tag:wemakezines.ning.com,2014-10-03:2288844:Comment:4105642014-10-03T19:57:31.736ZMarianhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/MarianElizabeth
<p>I had my first printing experience at Staples today. I really like that you can just go in, do your thing, and leave. It might be kind of expensive there though, so I'm going to read through this entire thread and see if there are some other options out there!</p>
<p>I had my first printing experience at Staples today. I really like that you can just go in, do your thing, and leave. It might be kind of expensive there though, so I'm going to read through this entire thread and see if there are some other options out there!</p> I do some of my zines as a cu…tag:wemakezines.ning.com,2014-05-15:2288844:Comment:3981382014-05-15T07:09:26.528ZZineiachttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/punxinsolidarity
<p>I do some of my zines as a cut and paste project to honor those zine pioneers who did zines that way for years and years DIY style and to be honest with you it's quite fun too. If you want a more professional approach to your zine publication, I used the powerful desktop publishing program created by Serif called "PagePlus" and if you choose their <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Pageplus Starter Edition,</span> it is entirely yours to use free with no strings attached. The only…</p>
<p>I do some of my zines as a cut and paste project to honor those zine pioneers who did zines that way for years and years DIY style and to be honest with you it's quite fun too. If you want a more professional approach to your zine publication, I used the powerful desktop publishing program created by Serif called "PagePlus" and if you choose their <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Pageplus Starter Edition,</span> it is entirely yours to use free with no strings attached. The only thing is It may take a DIY crash course, self schooled, college training approach, in order to be able to learn all of it's massive features that are built in, but it is worth the few weeks of intense practicing it takes to learn all the enormous power of this professional publishing desktop software.<br/><br/>To answer your question about printing, yes you can do it all from home using your home printer, or even an old typewriter will work, then take it to a P.O.D. service (print on demand). A good company to consider is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">LuLu.com</span> and you can have it collated together like a small press book for a small fee and you can even print as many as just 1 single copy or 1000 copies, all at your request. But where is the fun in that, right...HaHa!<br/><br/>I hope this helps you, or anybody who lives for the zine Scene.</p>
<p>Good Luck And Cheers,<br/><br/>Rich<br/><br/><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Contact Me Below Anytime:</strong></span><br/><a rel="nofollow" href="http://thezineiac.wordpress.com" target="_blank">http://thezineiac.wordpress.com</a><br/><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.diy-publishing.com" target="_blank">www.diy-publishing.com</a><br/>Email: diy-publishing@att.net</p> The work photocopier!!tag:wemakezines.ning.com,2013-02-11:2288844:Comment:3500052013-02-11T23:48:24.508ZAspirehttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/Aspire
The work photocopier!!
The work photocopier!! The last Junk Zine I did (30…tag:wemakezines.ning.com,2013-02-06:2288844:Comment:3492732013-02-06T19:15:37.974ZJames N. Dawsonhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/JamesNDawson
<p>The last Junk Zine I did (30 pgs---15 standard sheets, doublesided, 160 copies) cost 152.49, including tax. That's a little more than 95 cents a copy. It costs $1.30 to mail without or without an envelope. So that's about $2.25 to print &amp; mail a copy. I priced it at $3 which I'd guesstimated to cover costs, but I send out a lot of gratis copies and get some back "return to sender". That works out to 3.17 cents a side. I get it copied at Copy Junction and I do it myself, rather than…</p>
<p>The last Junk Zine I did (30 pgs---15 standard sheets, doublesided, 160 copies) cost 152.49, including tax. That's a little more than 95 cents a copy. It costs $1.30 to mail without or without an envelope. So that's about $2.25 to print &amp; mail a copy. I priced it at $3 which I'd guesstimated to cover costs, but I send out a lot of gratis copies and get some back "return to sender". That works out to 3.17 cents a side. I get it copied at Copy Junction and I do it myself, rather than hand it over to them. <br/> <br/> <cite>Elaine said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://wemakezines.ning.com/forum/topics/how-where-to-print?id=2288844%3ATopic%3A117568&amp;page=7#2288844Comment336545"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>I am SO wanting to use the machine at work, now that I'm back employed again, but they've got one of the oldest, crappiest photocopiers I've ever seen and the toner ink coverage just bites. Using Office Depot is a hassle, I have to wait for the special coupons for a discount. They upped things to 9 cents a page (one sided) and that means $1.80 cents alone for a 10 sheet book (40 pages) and add in 18 cents a page for a card stock cover with 14 cents to print that double sided.... Impossible to sell at the $1 price so 'coveted' by dinosaurs.</p>
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<p>Time, and pricing, has moved on from the 1970's folks. I'm not looking to make a fortune but I DO want to at least cover my printing costs and any table costs at events. Nobody likes to work at a continual loss.</p>
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</blockquote> I know this print studio in B…tag:wemakezines.ning.com,2013-02-02:2288844:Comment:3490472013-02-02T14:01:33.401ZGloria Glitzerhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/GloriaGlitzer
<p>I know this print studio in Berlin, named <a href="http://we-make.it" target="_blank">We make it.</a></p>
<p>They own a Risograph with 14 color drums and offer a printing service for artists, designers and people with a penchant for excellent and handcrafted printed matters. So it’s not one of these cheap and creepy copy shops. These guys are really passionate in what they do and speciallized on artists publications and art zines. But they also print and design flyers, business cards,…</p>
<p>I know this print studio in Berlin, named <a href="http://we-make.it" target="_blank">We make it.</a></p>
<p>They own a Risograph with 14 color drums and offer a printing service for artists, designers and people with a penchant for excellent and handcrafted printed matters. So it’s not one of these cheap and creepy copy shops. These guys are really passionate in what they do and speciallized on artists publications and art zines. But they also print and design flyers, business cards, posters, cd wallets, invites…</p>
<p>And they have several machines for folding, stapeling, scoring, cutting and stuff.</p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/c3NX1Zm--mf*49Ke0QMoBCVBsIb-vlgd09LiQ6l2DW5jWWsy6ylUyHs8qBVuIFBBZMYp3hej9aCg4jpVCCgZFTTdw13RKi4O/wemakeit3.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/c3NX1Zm--mf*49Ke0QMoBCVBsIb-vlgd09LiQ6l2DW5jWWsy6ylUyHs8qBVuIFBBZMYp3hej9aCg4jpVCCgZFTTdw13RKi4O/wemakeit3.jpg?width=721" width="721"/></a></p> Find a way to do it for free…tag:wemakezines.ning.com,2012-11-09:2288844:Comment:3366602012-11-09T19:57:00.126ZEddie Russell Zinehttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/EddieRussellZine
<p>Find a way to do it for free so you can give them away for free. There is a way.......</p>
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<p>Find a way to do it for free so you can give them away for free. There is a way.......</p>
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